cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

"Why should I care about my privacy? I don't do anything illegal."

Hmm? Do we now acknowledge that laws and public perceptions of your actions can change with time, and that you may one day become a "criminal" for continuing behaviors that were once legal?

To preempt the "but it should just be legal" whataboutists: Of course it should just be legal, but "criminal charges" suggests that it isn't, and privacy helps you not get caught. Furthermore, this issue contains but is not limited to abortion. It's time that "normal" people wake the fuck up and get on board with privacy rights.

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  • This is exactly the point I’ve made to friends and family. They complain I’m not on social media like they are and it makes it more difficult to connect with me on things, but I refuse. I will not use services that blatantly disrespect my privacy.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    For all of those saying Facebook was just complying with the law- there is absolutely no reason for Facebook to have access to its users' private information. The company I work for can't do anything with a customer's account unless they give us the password. We can't see anything they have saved there. All of the private stuff they have is private and even if a court ordered us to show it to them, we literally couldn't comply.

    We're a small company and we can do it. A company the size of Meta can certainly do it.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You can do it because you're a small company. Get enough attention, and the FBI will force you to decrypt on demand. They've done it before and the supreme court backed them up. Do it over seas and expect your US traffic to get blocked, if they don't raid your offices.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    “Company follows laws in the country it operates in.” More at 11.

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